Hersh: U.S. Trained Iranian "Terrorist" Group in Nevada

Source: Democracy Now!

Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has revealed the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command has trained operatives from an Iranian opposition group at a secret site in Nevada. Writing in The New Yorker, Hersh reports JSOC began training the Mujahideen-e-Khalq, or MEK, in 2005, even though the group is listed as a foreign terrorist organization by the State Department. The training included intercepting communications, cryptography, weaponry and small unit tactics. The training is said to have ended before President Obama took office. Last month, NBC reported members of the MEK have been involved in the assassinations of five Iranian nuclear scientists.

2. What is the term for not being able to learn from your mistakes?

3. The Bush people gained power and money from wars

so they love this shit. Take Osama bin Ladin. First he helps further the war against the Soviets. Republicans whip up war rhetoric for political gain and manufacture arms (Halliburton, etc) for monetary gain. Win win for Republicans. Next, after the Cold War, Osama start his own Dr. Evil style war and the Reps do the same thing. They don't kill Osama because they need him for political and manufacturing reasons. So they train the next generation.

8. yeh, and using the mujahideen seemed like a better option than open war too

10. The Soviets had all those nukes, no open war. See, deterrence works. Why should Iran be different?

It occurs to me that there has not been a single invasion of a nuclear power for six decades. But, lots of invasions and open attacks on those that do no have The Bomb. If I were Iran, I would want into that tight little club. Wouldn't you?

13. sorry...

just now figured out how to check for replies on my posts.

I'm really not a Red Operative. I was thinking of our battle related deaths, and the people we directly kill (not counting pretending not to notice what we contribute to), as apposed to the total Iraqi dead, for instance. I agree and recognize that far more than tens were lost.

9. Hmmmm . . .

I wonder what the response would have been if Iran, let's just say, had launched an armed unmanned aerial vehicle that fired a missile or two into the JSOC site in Nevada? I've been reliably assured here at DU over the last year or so that that's a perfectly valid tactic when we do it, because we're at war and stuff.